Location
- Atlas number
- SC2778 (2778)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Highland
- Historic county
- Ross-shire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Lochbroom
- National Grid reference
- NC 1116 0080
- Latitude
- 57.95641
- Longitude
- -5.19323
- Altitude
- 15 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort and promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 1, SW 1, NW 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 0.22 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.05 ha, 0.22 ha
- Footprint
- 0.36 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Over-lapping (North east); Oblique (North east); Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture, heather moorland, and coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1875); Earthwork Survey (1947); Other (1964); Other (1973); Other (1974)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2419
- HER
- Highland HER MHG9142
- National record
- record NC 10 SW 1; monument 4530
- Wikidata
- Q31100393
Sources
References
- Calder and Steer, C S T and K A (1951) 'Dun Lagaidh and four other prehistoric monuments near Ullapool, Ross and Cromarty'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 83 (1948-9), 68-76
- Feachem, R (1963) A guide to prehistoric Scotland. Batsford: London
- Nisbet, H C (1975) 'A geological approach to vitrified forts, part II: bedrock and building stone'. Sci & Archaeol 15 (1975), 3-16